lenten journal: holding pattern

the reason we don’t
go spinning into
space as the world turns
they say is gravity
as though being weighed
down is what does it

we sat around the
dinner table with
one who wrote a book
that mattered to Ginger
and was held in place
by the power of words

we helped serve dinner
at the shelter with friends
for folks weighed down
but still spinning away
and offered a tether
in our breaking of bread

we burst in on belly
dancers down at the pub
of all shapes and sizes
writhing for a room full
of friends who found who
resonance in the rhythm

what matters most is
weightless -- gossamer
grace or glee – you know:
old trails of love and tears
fresh new lines to trace
held on to not held down

Peace,
Milton